Morning all, I hope you guys are all doing ok and coping. My Dad has been prescribed morphine recently for ongoing chest pain stemming from his lung mets and yesterday this has been swapped to patches. In others experiences, how did you find morphine...
Hi all. My husband was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer that had spread in December last year. He has had one cycle of Folfirinox and he reacted very badly to it. Just starting now to eat slightly better again. He didn't want to have Folfirinox...
Hello everyone I hope your all coping/dealing/putting up with all that Pancreatic Cancer brings. Me? I am keeping well -doing ok I have good days and bad days mmm... But Im still here!!!! Therefore a grumbly rumbly pooey farty( excuse the lingo) day is...
My oncologist called yesterday to give me the unexpected news that my pancreatic tumour has shrunk by around 30%, the lymph node tumour in my neck has shrunk by around 70% and the growths in my liver have shrunk a bit too! This from the 3 cycles of Folfirinox...
My sister has just been diagnosed with PC, liver secondaries and yesterday they told us it has gone to her lungs. I feel broken. What do I say to her when I go see her? How can I comfort her.
This may be a long post. Last summer, before PC diagnosis, I was experiencing greasy, light colour soft stools of a putty consistency. Contacted my GP who after doing various blood tests suggested I may be gluten intolerant/coeliac. I started eating a...
So 1 year ago today my fabulous mum was told she had terminal PC on a ward with strangers listening and no family for support. The doctor who she had never met before said she would only have weeks not months. 3 weeks later mum had a horrific gall bladder...
I was discharged from the local hospital yesterday evening after 8 days of non-chemo treatment and I'm in a quandary about what to to do next. My wife dropped me off at the door and I walked into A&E (on the advice of the CC Help line triage nurse)...
I had a whipple in july 21 which i recovered from well, they took the whole tumour out. I've since done 8 cyles of 12 on chemotherapy and it's killing me. I've been really poorly right from the start and it's getting worse. My question is, has anyone...
Hi All, My darling dad is 4 years post stage 4 diagnosis - I am so grateful that he's still here. Chemo has been harsh on him during this this time and he's currently on a break from treatment as he had a nasty case of diverticulitis. He has been...
